York Historic Environment Record

YORK SW6052SW LOW PETERGATE 1112-1/27/579 (South West side) 01/07/68 Nos.37 AND 39 GV II Includes: No.51 STONEGATE. House with shop, now shop and offices. 1827-28; late C19 shopfront. Red brick in English bond with timber mutule cornice; timber shopfront with cast-iron columns; slate roof with brick stack. EXTERIOR: 4-storey, 4-bay curved front. Shopfront framed in panelled pilasters with broad fascia and dentilled and brattished cornice on shaped brackets: plate glass windows with transoms, glazed corner door with overlight and glazed and panelled upstairs door at left end, separated by fluted Corinthian columns. Shop window sills are concave and retain lettering advertising HARDCASTLE SILVERSMITH and JEWELLER. Windows on first and second floors are 12-pane sashes, first floor ones taller; on third floor, squat 6-pane sashes; all have painted stone sills and flat arches of gauged brick. INTERIOR: not inspected. RCHM record that many original fittings survive, including a fireplace of veined black marble and staircase with square balusters. Nos 37 and 39 were first listed on 24/06/83. (City of York: RCHME: The Central Area: HMSO: 1981-: 193). Listing NGR: SE6030752084